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     Company Name:                DO & CO AG
     ISIN:                        AT0000818802



     Reason for the research:     Update
     Recommendation:              BUY
     Target price:                EUR 250
     Target price on sight of:    12 months
     Last rating change:
     Analyst:                     Simon Keller



Staying on course, chg



Equity story unchanged. The prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure and related
fuel-supply risk warrant a more cautious near-term view. Still, DO & CO's
growth and margin expansion case remains intact, with any potential pressure
seen as temporary.



Route mix to cushion potential volume risk: Airlines are likely to cut less
profitable short-haul routes before reducing long-haul capacity, where
network relevance and yields are higher. For example, Lufthansa is removing
20,000 short-haul flights through October, reducing summer capacity by only
c. 1% in Available Seat Kilometers. This matters for DO & CO, as premium and
long-haul flights carry materially higher catering value than short-haul
routes. Hence, an increasing number of flight cancellations does not imply a
proportional hit to DO & CO-relevant catering volumes, in our view.



Turkish Airlines / IST looks set to benefit from rerouting: Middle East
carrier weakness and regional airspace disruption should favour Turkish
Airlines and Istanbul Airport, both key DO & CO partners. For Europe-Asia
traffic seeking to avoid Gulf disruption, Istanbul is one of the most
logical rerouting hubs. This is already visible in the data: Turkish
Airlines' passenger growth accelerated to +16.0% yoy in March, from +9.4%
yoy in February. At the same time, Istanbul Airport passenger growth rose to
+8% yoy in March, from +2.5% yoy in February. DO & CO is strategically
positioned for this shift, having broken ground on its new 150,000 sqm
Istanbul gourmet kitchen, set to become the world's largest fresh food
gourmet kitchen and a key capacity backbone at the hub.



Flexible cost base to protect margins: DO & CO's Airline Catering model is
structurally margin-protective. Around one-third of sales are open-book
contracts with fixed agreed margins, while the remaining business is
supported by fixed handling fees, volume-linked meal revenues and
pass-through clauses for wage and raw material inflation. Combined with a
lean cost structure, with variable costs equivalent to c. 80% of sales, this
should cushion margins even if flight volumes soften.



Competitive position of strength versus peers: DO & CO is focused on the
resilient premium segment and competes from a much stronger financial
position than key peers. The group runs at c. 8.7% EBIT margin and only 0.2x
net debt/EBITDA, giving it flexibility to defend service quality, invest in
capacity and stay disciplined in tenders. The comparison to gategroup
underlines DO & CO's relative strength. The world's largest airline caterer
remains financially constrained, with negative shareholders' equity, 3.25x
net debt/EBITDA and net losses in each of the last three years.



Action: Estimates are cut to reflect a more cautious near-term macro
backdrop around fuel supply, mainly delaying part of the expected growth and
margin expansion. The revised estimates are still broadly in line with
consensus (eCons 26/27: sales growth 8.8% yoy, EBIT margin 8.9%).



BUY, new PT EUR 250 (old: EUR 266), based on DCF.



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